UCLA gave $100k to radical anti-U.S. separatist group

MEChA believes New Mexico, Arizona, California, parts of other states are nation of 'Aztlan'

Published: 07/25/2012 at 5:50 PM

(CampusReform) A student group espousing anti-American separatist views at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) received $100,000 in funding from the college administration last year, reveals an internal budget obtained by Campus Reform.

The recipient of the funds is a student-organization, Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de AZTLAN (MEChA) which believes that the Southwestern U.S. states New Mexico, Arizona, California and parts of Nevada, Utah and Colorado are in fact part of a separate nation called “Aztlan.”

The national organization’s website states that their aim is “reclaiming the land of our birth” and calls the organization “a nationalist movement of indigenous gente [people] that lay claim to the land that is ours by birthright.”